Clarification: The Scholar Fairy

[Anonymoose]

I just want to add that this "two aspects of one faery" statement does not exist in the french translation of the game.

It's likely just a semantic choice - I mean, you still have the scene where she flickers back and forth between Eos and Selene, no?

Alko Zolka ... says that "fairies are otherworldly creatures which the scholars learned to bind and control".

...I've got nothin'. If they are indeed from "another world," I wouldn't even know where to start, and the game itself is still really fuzzy about how we're supposed to categorize aetherial entities (primals vs. summons vs. elementals vs. sprites) in the first place. It could just be the word choice. Though, "otherworldly" sometimes just means "seemingly not of the natural world," which is synonymous with "etherial" and in Eorzea "not of the corporeal" often means "of the aetherial."

I'm still wondering if there's a secret second class of the TRANSCENDENT regnum for non-voidsent aetherial entities that they just never told us about... too bad I never had a chance to test the early 1.0 "Eluder" abilities on elementals.

[nicomede]

It's likely just a semantic choice - I mean, you still have the scene where she flickers back and forth between Eos and Selene, no?

I don't remember but maybe. In-game texts anyway very clearly present Selene and Eos as two different faeries you have to master, and "Lily" does not exist.
I hope someone who can read japanese would help me with that.

(I love the discussion here btw)

[nevaeh]

Here to offer some from the Japanese texts. Same with most, I only have what I can get from cutscenes in the inn and lvl 50 conversation with Alka. The only phrase of interests that Alka said when asking him about sch would be:

" 使い魔である妖精「フェアリー」を従えて "

I would translate it as "accompanied by their sprite* familiar, "Fairy"" but for more clarity, I have to break down the words one by one.

使い魔 (tsukaima), can be referred to any type of animals, monsters or spirits as long as they have a master and more often than not, has to be summoned. Of course, the method of how they gain a master depends on the setting of whichever world they're from. Dictionary translates this term to "familiar" so I went with it.

妖精 (yousei), is essentially "fairy" in Japanese. But despite that, フェアリー (feari-, katakana for the English word fairy) is used too in brackets. I cannot translate it properly without repeating fairy twice so I opted to use "sprite* for the yousei part instead. This would suggest that the fairy we have is under a race/type/something called "Fairy"?

従えて (shitagaete), although I use "accompanied", in Japanese, it actually also has a "subjugate" tone to it. Basically, it's hard to say if our fairy is forced or not, except that she submits to and obey us.

Lastly, her name is リリィベル (ririiberu) in Japanese. I'm not familiar with other FF games but I googled and in Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light there is a fairy named "Lilibelle" so I suppose it's reference to her?

PS: Alka greeted in Japanese, something along "Hey, partner! Something you want to talk to me about?" and did not include Lily/fairy.